Best expression & matter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”

Way Want Doe Ideas Different Matter Progress Expression Evolution Method Following Theme

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.”

Matter Term Expression

Book:Essays Before a Sonata

Source: Essays Before a Sonata

“I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.”

Should Matter Law Nature Study Expression Communication Source Travel Ocean Unions Streams Wilderness Shore Rays Crossings Magnetic Dealings Aurora

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.”

Matter Support Expression Poison Gas Target Freedom Of Expression Cyberspace Poison Gas

Author:John Perry Barlow

“I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.”

Ifs Want Writing Matter Film Subjects Expression Subject Matter Personal Expression

Author:Woody Allen

“Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future”

“To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.”

Ifs Love Feels Matter Lying Fall Expression Silent Leaving Appearance Impression Curious Fallen Melancholy Vulgar Solemn Messy Being Loved Cathedrals Complacent Uneasiness

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.”

“In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating all the proper controls and using considerable technical virtuosity. When he saw Crick's exasperated expression he said, "but Dr. Crick, we have got it right - we know it's right," Crick's response was, "The point is not whether it's right. The point is: does it even matter whether its right or wrong?"”

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Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.”

“No matter what we say, entertainers are usually quite insecure, wobbly characters underneath, and maybe that bit of glory or that bit of expression or whatever it is compensates in some area.”

Matter Character Bits Expression Glory Areas No Matter What Insecure Entertainers

Author:Robert Plant

“Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself.”

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot.”

Ifs Matter Used Voice Animal Talking Expression Shots Terror Tone Shock Cows Harsh

Author:Barbara Woodhouse

“Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.”

Ifs Should Soul Matter Fighting Expression No Matter What Possession Your Soul Guts Worldly Worldly Possessions Never Stop Fighting

Author:Kanye West

“The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.”

Thinking Art Ideas Matter Beautiful Artist Language Expression Disappear Thoughtful Works Of Art Finest

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it's going to shine. It's going to resonate.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Helping Creativity Meditation Expression Pure No Matter What Shining Mediums

Author:Rainn Wilson

“At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.”

“The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.”

Source: Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays

“I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.”

Thinking Trying Matter Hard Names Successful Environment Expression Reframing New Environment Successful Work

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.”

Knows Years Matter Moments Easy Perfect Creative Expression Photography Musician Photographer Technique Painter Worthwhile Sculpture

Author:Paul Caponigro

“It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.”

“Whatever happens to me during the course of my life - physically, socially, or financially - I can always choose to focus on giving. When I'm in that state, nothing else matters. I cease to exist as a separate being and merge into an expression of divine oneness.”

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Author:Steve Pavlina

“All art constantly aspires to the condition of music....In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other.”

Mean Art Ends Matter Moments Form Conditions Subjects Expression Ideals Aspire

Author:Walter Pater

“This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.”

Believe Littles Long Matter Lying Expression Sincere Monstrous

Author:R. C. Sproul

“The new millennium won't be about sexual labels; it'll be about sexual expression. It won't matter if you're sleeping with men or women. It'll be about sleeping with individuals. Soon everyone will be pansexual. It won't matter if you're gay or straight.”

Ifs Men Matter Individual Sleep Expression Gay Labels Millennium

Author:Kim Cattrall

“Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.”

Matter Enough Language Expression Music Is

Author:Gwenno

“To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.”

Feels Humans Looks Doe Matter Faces Mother Lost Hours Half Gone Forever Changed Expression Baby Arms No Matter What Prisoner Mechanism Captured Half Hours Best Picture Dead Baby

Author:Horst Faas

“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.”

“When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters.”

People Mean Persons Matter Pain Expression Severe Severe Pain

Author:Dan Ariely

“You were created as a masterpiece and you are one of God's expressions of beauty. Short, tall, thin, thick, freckles, big eyes, small ones . . . it doesn't matter.”

Matter Bigs Eye Expression Tall Thick Modesty Masterpiece Freckles Big Eyes

Book:Secret Keeper Girl Mom-Daughter Devos: with Coloring Experience

Source: Secret Keeper Girl Mom-Daughter Devos: with Coloring Experience

“My father has this expression that you have to be able to look yourself in the eyes in the mirror, you know, and know that you're a good person. If that's true and you feel good about yourself then that's all that matters no matter what other people's perceptions are.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Looks Persons Matter Eye Able Father Expression Perception Mirrors No Matter What Feel Good About Yourself Good Person

Author:Stephanie McMahon

“[The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people to worship in a particular matter and remain neutral on what those views and beliefs were.”

People Long Matter Government Father Belief Force Religious Views Particular Expression Worship Founding Freedom Of Expression Religious Views

Author:John Cornyn

“It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.”

Knows Way Trying Kind Mean Stills Important Real Matter Play Felt Causes Deals Records Rocks Expression Scene Inspired Radio Primaries Liberation Punk Gigs Stadiums Punk Rock Radio Plays

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I have done here on earth that was necessary to be done, no matter what my expression or application and now I continue to live here in the dimensions where I'm experiencing/expressing a deeper level of understanding and awareness of my reason and purpose here on earth, which is wonderful and for which I am grateful for.”

Matter Reason Done Earth Purpose Understanding Levels Wonderful Awareness Expression No Matter What Grateful Deeper Dimensions Application Exes I Am Grateful

Author:Timothy Treadwell

“The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.”

Matter Christ Church Expression Duty Dignity Words Proof Maturity Priests Trust In God Vow Commitment To God Priesthood Servant Of God Following Jesus Celibacy Personal Dignity

Author:Pope John Paul II

“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.”

Love Kind Matter Beauty Expression No Matter What Smile Glad Inner Beauty True Beauty Gladness Her Beauty Short Beauty

Author:Anne Roiphe

“S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.”

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Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”

Source: At Swim-two-birds

“Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.”

“The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”

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